Cambridgeshire-based rewilding charity, Creating Nature’s Corridors, was joined by 70 volunteers on Friday, as the team - joined by MP for Huntingdon Ben Obese-Jecty - dug deep to plant 4,000 trees and hedging plants at Huntingdon Racecourse.
The new trees and hedging will thicken up a protective line of shelter originally started by the charity on the same site last year. In addition to planting, volunteers from Hilton Cambridge City Centre, Villager Homes, CGI, ING, Virgin Media O2 and the Cambridge Juice Company donned their gardening gloves to help with weeding, litter picking and mulching.
Creating Nature’s Corridors was out planting again the next day, planting more trees and hedges within the local community at Huntingdon racecourse, ably assisted by members of the local guiding community.
The charity, which commits to planting 10,000 native trees and hedges every year to boost biodiversity, encourage carbon capture and improve the local landscape, has already planted over 4,405 trees and hedges this year and is on target to hit 40,000 by the end of 2025.
Creating Nature’s Corridors founder, Vhari Russell, said, “The charity is going from strength to strength. Now in its fourth year, we are delighted to have witnessed such a positive response to our request for volunteers. Many companies now work with Creating Nature’s Corridors to fulfil their CSR agenda, and we are hopeful that on the back of this, those same companies will, in due course, offer financial support to enable us to continue planting. We are grateful to Ben Obese-Jecty for taking the time out of his busy schedule to join us, helping to raise awareness of the importance of re-greening Huntingdon’s open spaces.”
